A World War Two codebreaker who worked at Bletchley Park as a Bombe machine operator and checker has died at the age of 99.

A modest hero has celebrated her 102nd birthday in the Highlands. Jean Munro, a World War Two codebreaker at Bletchley Park, now lives at a care home in Grantown. She worked in Hut 6 with the team ...

The attack on Pearl Harbor 70 years ago set in motion a series of battles in the Pacific between the Japanese and the United States. The turning point in the Pacific came in June 1942, when the U.S.

Elizebeth Friedman was a star cryptanalyst who cracked hundreds of ciphers for the U.S. government. Public domain via Wikimedia Commons Armed with a sharp mind and nerves of steel, Elizebeth Smith ...

UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai. (photo by Juliette Vazquez) For the second year in a row, UC Santa Cruz undergraduate computer engineering student Astra Tsai was ...

Led by the brilliant Alan Turing, inventor of the computer, the codebreakers of England's cipher-cracking organization, Bletchley Park, were mathematicians, crossword-puzzle fanatics, and other ...

AMERICAN EXPERIENCE “The Codebreaker” tells the fascinating story of Elizebeth Smith Friedman, the groundbreaking cryptanalyst whose painstaking work decoding thousands of messages for the U.S.

The Houston Astros' sign-stealing scheme had its origins in an application created by the team's front office, according to a report published Friday night by the Wall Street Journal. Dubbed ...

The death of MI6 codebreaker Gareth Williams – whose naked body was found inside an externally locked bag in his bathtub in 2010 – was a “perfect crime,” a confined spaces expert says. Peter Faulding ...

You, too, can be a state-of-the-art sign-stealer. You can play along at home and download The Athletic’s homemade version of the sign-cracking algorithm, while we ...